Orion Space Mission

The grand-prize winner of NASA Langley Research Center's 2015 student art contest is Caillyn Jeffery of Chesapeake, whose acrylic painting was named Best in Show by NASA employees. The news was announced Wednesday at the Virginia Air & Space Center in downtown Hampton. Some 426 students from throughout the region had entered the contest. Their theme: “Reaching for New Heights,” inspired by December’s historic test launch of the Orion crew capsule. Caillyn was one of 12 finalists chosen in May from among the entrants by a five-person panel. She’s an eighth-grader at Hickory Middle School. The works of all the first-place winners will be on display at the...

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The grand-prize winner of NASA Langley Research Center's 2015 student art contest is Caillyn Jeffery of Chesapeake, whose acrylic painting was named Best in Show by NASA employees.
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The heat shield from the Orion crew capsule is stripped down, bolted tight and ready for engineers at NASA Langley Research Center to play with.
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With the launch of the Orion spacecraft on its first flight in December, NASA took a giant step toward the future of human space exploration.
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Dan Mazanek at NASA Langley Research Center has ample reason to celebrate: NASA just chose the concept he championed as its preferred method for its high-tech Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM).
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ISAAC turned its back on a crowd of dignitaries Monday, its bristly "head" facing the laboratory's opposite wall.
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